Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 20:51:01 +0800 From: adrian@freebsd.org To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any action on PR 10570 ? getting closer to 65K :-( Message-ID: <19990501125101.21175.qmail@ewok.creative.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Apr 1999 11:50:51 MST." <XFMail.990430115051.jdp@polstra.com>
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John Polstra writes: >Snob Art Genre wrote: >> On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >>> In message <XFMail.990430112019.jdp@polstra.com>, John Polstra writes: >>> >Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >>> > >>> >You're being totally unrealistic. You can't create >2^32 of >>> >_anything_ on an i386 without running out of memory. >>> >>> Well, John, you can, the newer ones will address 2^36 bytes of memory >>> and even a i386 can address 2^32 bytes or 2^35 bits... >> >> Since when does FreeBSD only run on i386? > >Sheesh. Make it a bloody long then so you'll get 64 bits on the >Alpha. And then go fix all the printf format mismatches. > >Or, pull you head out of that dark fantasyland and realize that (a) a >32-bit counter is not a problem in any realistic sense, and (b) if it >were, we'd have thousands of other equally serious problems throughout >the system. > >I'm done with this absurd thread. I tend to agree here - but I'll submit a patch with an assertion in the next couple of days. adrian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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